A thousand things...but one at a time

You need to get a hundred (maybe a thousand things right) to build a great enterprise. I realised this quite early in my life as an entrepreneur. Maybe in a few quick years if not months. But it took me many many years to realise that you can do it only one at a time.

Sooner or later Microsoft will have to choose

Microsoft has much on its hands to catch-up with google, apple, sony et. al. That's mostly on the consumer side. Which also is the most profit making part of its the business (at least that's so for its Windows and Office products). It might therefore chose to relinquish this space and fight IBM, Oracle, SAP etc. in the business software space or do it the other way around. It will be interesting to see. Or else it risks becoming a producer of not-so-great products.